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Because swimming is awesome. Oh, and all the stuff @Voice of the Quakers said.

There are a few others, where the Olympics are not the pinnacle of their sport, that I would not mind seeing eliminated and that would probably not bother anyone in their sport if they were eliminated: baseball, soccer, rugby, and tennis.

Exactly. 21ish.

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At the time I wrote that sentence Spencer Lee was a presumptive 4xer who had not yet seen the bright lights of Tulsa courtesy of Matt Ramos. At the same time, Ed Banach had been a 3xer for 21 years.

Now that we are in the quiet between the storms that are the Olympic Team Trials and the Olympics (with my apologies to Last Chance Qualifier), I thought it time we updated the GOATest GOAT of all GOATs list since there are two new members of the 100%ers Club. As an aside, I picture this club having high-backed leather chairs, cigars and a ridiculous number of brandy snifters all of which are unused and pushed off to the side so these guys can drill in the middle of the room. As a reminder, to produce my rankings I found what I could for who I could. This includes bonus points scored, number of matches wrestled, wins, and pinfalls. Some of these counting stats favor one era and some favor another era, so I also look at percentages in some cases. Anyway, if you want to know more there are pages of debate above that make for amazing bedtime reading. Then I reduced the totals and percentages to ranks within the group. The average rank is used to see how high each of the creams rises (i.e. my sort). I also include the number of categories for which the wrestler is top quartile mostly because I found it interesting, though I do not use it in any meaningful way, except to stare at and sigh affectionately at my work. The Rank In my world there are tiers. I know there are some on here who do not care for tiers. There are also some typing these words that do not care that there are some who do not care for tiers. So we are at an impasse. Interestingly both of our new entrants enter Tier 3. Be that as it may, there can only be one Highlander and there can only be one Tier 1 wrestler. Our two newest members of the club are smack dab in the middle of Tier 3. For the most part they are both hurt by the number of loses they took, the low usage rate, and the fact they left too many guys standing. The 4xer Rank I write this next section under protest. For those of you who are not into subtlety, I have also produced the ranks for the 4xers. For this I removed the match count column because it becomes meaningless (except for Pat Smith's 1 pigtail bout). <blah, blah> no guarantees <blah, blah> first one is the toughest <blah, blah> I don't like tough ciphering <blah, blah, blah>.

Do we know what the rules and remedies were in these years?

He really needs to stop the wrestling after the whistle. But I love, love, love when he hustles to the middle and sets up on the near side, forcing his opponent to go around him. Burroughs, in particular, took real exception to this. But if you buy socks without elastic, you can't expect to also get dibs after working them hose for a bit.

If for no other reason than his Twitter history. It is so cringey.

That rule was changed a number of years ago.

Holding the opponent by the singlet is under "general prohibitions" and the penalty portion for those is pretty open to interpretation. I am guessing precedence comes into play too, but not sure. "These general prohibitions are sanctioned based on the severity of the foul (disqualification, caution-1(2) point or verbal warning)."

page 34 There is a bulleted list that closely matches the bulleted list in the USAW version

The paranthetical in my post is a quote from the UWW version.

https://uww.org/governance/regulations-olympic-wrestling It is in there too, though the wording is different and odd (avoiding the Wrestling in the center of the mat).

https://www.usawmembership.com/usa_wrestling_rule_book.pdf Check the section on passivity

He wasn't there Saturday night, or at least not in the same seats.

You seem to be getting confused about PSU. They have not had an arrival to PSU. They have arrived at NLWC.

At least for the finals they sprinkled in the WFS and Greco to make sure there was an audience. When Brooks beat Taylor the place started emptying out. They made an announcement that there were still five matches remaining. If they held all Greco in a row, almost no one would have been there. WFS as a stand alone would have done better than Greco, but much worse than MFS.

The second half of the sentence exposes the lie in the first half.

Hall leaving his shoes

I sometimes for get how silly you like to be. Thanks for the reminder.

I really do know nothing. 125 wrestling match 1 now.

Wyatt Hendrickson going the extra mile to sign autographs for the kids.

Good job picking that nit.